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CONFERENCE

Wednesday 19th November 2025

8.30am

  • Tea & coffee

9.00am

  • Opening remarks

9.15am

  • Keynote: Dr Poppy Wilde
  • The promises and pitfalls of posthuman and postanthropocene games

10.15am

  • Break

Panel 1

  • 10.30am
    Crafting CG Creatures: The Artist-Animal Bond in Creature Animation
    Dr Bin Yee Ang, Xiamen University (Malaysia Campus)
  • 11.00am
    Social Robotics Needs Animation Expertise
    Ms Deborah Szapiro, University of Technology Sydney
  • 11.30am
    The Workmanship of Risk: mediating stop-motion animation through AI
    Mr Simon von Wolkenstein, JMC Academy, Sydney

Panel 2

  • 10.30am
    Echoes of Eorzea: Preserving Player Experience as Digital Cultural Heritage - Miss Cheyenne Ee, Lasalle College of the Arts
  • 11.00am
    Grim's Viking Village
    Using Unreal to develop a popup immersive heritage experience
    Miss Annabeth Robinson, University of Salford
  • 11.30am
    Reframing Memory Through Participation: Digital Installations as Peacebuilding Tools in Post-Conflict Lebanon
    Ambassador Yara El Turk , SDSN Youth

12.00pm

  • Lunch

Panel 3

  • 1.00pm
    Hayao Miyazaki: The Intersectionality of Anthropomorphism, Feminism And Pacifism in Studio Ghibli Films
    Ms Ameya Das, Nitte Institute of Communication
  • 1.30pm
    Anxious to Entertain: When Vtubers Take the Stage in Anime
    Dr Selen Calik Bedir, Bogazici University
  • 2.00pm
    "Whoever wins this war becomes justice!" The Representation of Physical and Narrative Spaces from Spain in Japanese Anime: the Case of One Piece
    Miss Sara Mai Ortiz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Panel 4

  • 1.00pm
    Envisioning the Future of Queer Embodiment in VR
    Dr Jacqueline Ristola, University of Bristol
  • 1.30pm
    Mapping Urban Noise through Stereoscopy and Gaussian splats
    Dr Oliver Gingrich, University of Greenwich
  • 2.00pm
    Seeing Beyond the Prison: a transdisciplinary collaboration on a virtual reality prison cell
    Dr Rosamund Davies, University of Greenwich

2.30pm

  • Break

Panel 5

  • 2.45pm
    Memory Preservation and Brazilian Animation Narratives in Audiovisual Counter-History
    Prof Tiago Lenartovicz, Universidade de São Paulo
  • 3.15pm
    Temporal Resonance: Vanishing Voices, Enduring Song
    Ms Jess Mountfield, University of the Arts London
  • 3.45pm
    Practice-Led Research: Towards a renewed enchantment through material-based stop motion animation
    Mr Joseph Norman, Arts University Bournemouth

Panel 6

  • 2.45pm
    About mathematics as a Cultural Co-Author: Rethinking Animation Analysis Through the Lens of Simulation
    Ms Katarzyna Żmuda, SWPS University
  • 3.15pm
    Embodiment, Representation and Narrative in Immersive Media
    Miss Claire O'Brien, Teesside University
  • 3.45pm
    Posthuman Play: Rethinking Agency in Interactive Digital Environments
    Mr Robin Fuller, Norwich University of the Arts

4.15pm

  • Break

Panel 7

  • 4.30pm
    Playable Pasts: Teaching Game Studies Through Site-Specific Storytelling
    Mrs Jodi Kolpakov, University of Missouri-St. Louis
  • 5.00pm
    Wandering the Screens: The Child Viewer as Digital Flâneur in Transmedia Animation
    Mr Raúl Jambrina Rojo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • 5.30pm
    Delivering Complex Systems to Reluctant Learners: Embedding Virtual Production and Immersive Technologies in Undergraduate Pedagogy
    Mr Julian Wright, Falmouth University

Panel 8

  • 4.30pm
    Interactive Animation
    Ms Jenna Caravello, UCLA
  • 5.00pm
    From the Emotional Zone to the Disguised Gymnasium: Rotoscoping the Gamer in Jordan Mechner's "Karateka" and "Prince of Persia"
    Dr Raz Greenberg, Tel Aviv University
  • 5.30pm
    Correlating Facial Movements: Introducing a Novel Action Unit (AU) Co-occurrence Matrix
    Dr Amrinder Romana, BIMM University

6.00pm

  • Closing remarks